[Three pieces of currency from the colonial and early republic periods. Decimalized].

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GLC#
GLC01980.05
Type
Header Record
Date
1775/04/10; 1776/01/01; 1786/05
Title
[Three pieces of currency from the colonial and early republic periods. Decimalized].
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
3 items
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence
Coins and Currency
Finance
Economics

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Collection Item
Document signed

[Workhouse issue of colonial currency].

10 April 1775

Roberts, Edward, fl. 1918

Cosigned by Job Bacon and Lindsay Coats. Two Pound Ten Shilling note; also listed as fifty shillings. Issued by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Printed in red and black by Hall and Sellers in Philadelphia. The back contains an engraving of...

GLC01980.05.01
Collection Item
Document signed

[Rhode Island currency].

May 1786

Hazard, Jonathan, fl. 1786

Cosigned by Samuel Allen and Elijah Cobb. Three Pound note; also listed as sixty shillings. Part of an issue of £100,000 in legal tender bills of credit equal to lawful silver money. Issued pursuant to acts of May, June and August of 1786 for the...

GLC01980.05.02
Collection Item
Document signed

[Delaware colonial currency].

1 January 1776

Sykes, James, 1725-1792

Cosigned by John McKinly. Four shilling note. Issued according to an act of the General Assembly of the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex. Back reads: "To Counterfeit is Death." Printed on thick paper containing blue thread and mica in an...

GLC01980.05.03